Murad Khan Mumtaz

Murad Khan Mumtaz is a Pakistani-American artist and art historian. Born in Lahore, Pakistan to an architect father,

He completed his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2010, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History from the University of Virginia in 2018. By 2021, he had married fellow artist Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz, with whom he has two children. He published a book in 2023 entitled "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting 1500-1800". As of 2024, he works as an assistant professor of art at Williams College.

Mumtaz paints in the traditional Indian miniature style. His earlier works were more experimental and focused on "modernising" the traditional style. For instance, one of his earlier works involved grafting scenes onto banknotes of the US dollar using the Indian miniature technique. After joining his PhD program, he began to use authentic materials and techniques. This includes using traditional pigments such as vermillion, indigo, etc., and squirrel-tail-hair brushes. He imports the hand-made wasli paper from Indian artisans. His subjects include Hindu gods and demons.